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OPINION | MIKE MAYTON: Washing away the color line
Charles Harrison Mason, a Black preacher from Preston, founded the oldest and largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States in 1897; Eudorus N. Bell, a white preacher from Malvern, issued the
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MIKE MAYTON SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
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If you asked people knowledgeable about religion to name the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States, most would say the Assemblies of God. If you asked this same group to name the oldest Pentecostal denomination in the U.S., they would most likely answer the Church of God headquartered in Cleveland, Tenn. ....

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